The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-10-04
THE DREAM OF NEBUCHADNEZzAR.
How 1t Is Interpreted by Leading Elder in
the Seventh Day Adventist Church.

the Seventh Day Adventist Church.
Owing to a pressure of preliminary work there
was no preaching the camp meeting of the
Seventh-day Adventists yesterday. The confer
ence committees were engaged in work of
routine character, inspecting accounts and plan
ming work for tine ensuing year. The reception
tent. for the accommodation of visitors from
the city. was put IL place, and tent for the &C.
commodation of the press, will be put up to-day.
The children have a separate tent, and APP
pear to think they having a camp meet
ing of their own. Meetings for their in
structon held every afternoon at
4:30 o'clock and Sunday school teachers would
find it profitable to visit it. if they for good
suggestions as methods of teaching children.
There is still importing of new arrivals.
Among the prominent members of the sect ex-
pected to-day are Elders E. w. Farnswortb, of
Iowa, and S. Fl. Lane, of Michigan The latter
has been for three years in England in mission
airy work.
At the meeting on Sunday evening Elder R.
A Underwood occupied the attention of the
concourse with an explicatio of the dream of
Nebuchadnezzer, set forth in the second chapter
of the book of Daniel. He called attention to
the forty fourth verse being that part of the
Interpretation of this remarkable dream, by the
angel to Daniel, which speaks of future events
and future kingdom. God" he said, had
government nova moral one-eXtensve as his
creation. shining worlds in space and creatures
of intelligence in them. subject to his govern
ment In the Bible mention is made. also. of
kingdom of grace. or favor. established in the
earth. This means the plan of salvation to man,
called sometimes the kingdom of Christ. which
was set up when that plan was established, but
the future Kingdom brought to view in the verse
under consideration is to be set MP when Christ
shall come TO the earth the second time. In
the twenty-fourth CHAPTER of Matthew is record
ed the signs and wonders that shall precede His
coming. and brings clearly to view the fact that
the coming spoken of cannot be spiritual one.
Such a coming is utterly impossible, because he
has never left tho earth spiritually He said to
His apostles, Go ye. therefore, and teach all
nations and 10, am with you Away
even unto the end of the world In the same
chapter we read this: Then if any man shall say
unto you. Lo here is Christ, there believe it
not, for there shall arise false Christs and false
prophets etc. When these verses are quoted
people will often say: just what think Sew
enth Day Adventists these false prophets,
fulfilling ChrIst's language in the following
verse: Behold. have told you before
"a short time SINCE" the elder continued, ~
was among the Mormons. and in conversation
with them learned that they believed that when
they shoulde have finished a temple now in
course of erection. the Lord would come in the
DESERT but Christ said Wherefore if thy shall
Say unto you behold! He IS in the desert; go
not forth He had often heard his father, now
over eighty years OF age say by the bedside OF
dying saint, and at funerals. that in death the
Son of Man had come is i: so? No! No!
What is DEATH Is it not the last enemy
Column after column of poetry may be written,
the coffin may be covered ali with flowers
hut in our hearts deaths cold grasp chills US and
we feel that death 10 terror and enemy.
For as the lightning cometh from the east and
shineth even unto the west, SO shall also the
coming Of the Son of Man be- My friends there
is nothing secret about this. And then shall
appear the sign of the Son of Man in Heaven
and they shall the Son of Man
coming in the clouds of heaven with power and
great glory There can be to chance for decep-
ton there. When the Son of Man shall come
in his glory. and all His holy angels with him.
then shall he sit upon the throne of His glory
Then is the time when He will take
His throne, not before. He declares that He is
now high priest sitting
the throne of his father. We all know
that Jesus came in fuliment of prophecy. He
was rejected by the Jews because they failed to
appreciate and understand them, and 80 colored
them to suit their own interpretations. The
Sanhedrm rejected Christ. and set Paul aside
calling him a hereto, although these very rulers
and priests read every Sabbath day all about
what Christ would DO when he came and how
they would put him to death, all of which was
portrayed on the prophetic page thousands of
years before These blind men read these things
Sabbath after Sabbath and could it.
just prophecy says it is to be in the last days.
In the twelfth chapter of Ezekiel read the fol-
lowing And the word of the Lord came unto
me saying. Son OF man, what is that proverb |
that ye have In the land of Israel saying: The |
w hat is proverb? Something that is proverbial |
or common. What is the proverb common |
saying to-day? You can't understand these |
prophecies, there is of trying. Tell them, |
Thus saith the Lord God. / will make this |
proverb to cease aud they shall more use it |
as proverb in Israel: but say unto them The |
days at hand and the effect of every vision |
A hungry soul asks for light upon these |
prophecies, and that they may be explained to
him, and is told that it cannot be done; that |
they sealed and not be understood. and
that God does not design that should worry |
our brains over them. Has God been so
foolish to give book be our guide |
and then rendered the truth so obscure
that we are unable to penetrate through it? No!
No! Is 1t is possible my friends. that
we be mistaken in the in Interpretation of this
Drophecyf Why, turn and read the thirteenth
and forty ninth chapters of Isaiah, and you will
see the name of the man who overthrow
Babylon is given two hundred years before he
was born! In the face of such proof of the
divine origin of the Interpretation of the dream,
is it possible to misunderstood the import of
the language that asserts the setting up of Gods
kingdom. Are you asubject of this kingdom! Do
you love God, and are you In harmony with his
aw? The Kingdoms of this world soon to be
ground to powder; only those in harmony with
Tod will be able to stand and look up in that day
md say: so this is God We have waited
or Him. He will save u.s. May God help you
% study these prophecies and understand
hem. May God help You and to persevere in
veil doing to the end that when thls kingdom |
s established we may have part IN it,"
The programme for to-day is: $50 A. NJ. Bible
eadlng; 9 A. NJ. conference meeting; 2:3O p. NJ
DISCOURSE by Elder Henderson on Sunday-school
work.